The
common scenes of life as it was lived in the rural villages of Punjab are
disappearing fast. Sukhpreet Singh has captured some of these
activities on his canvas e.g the manual harvesting of wheat and cotton,
the cutting of the fodder for the cattle on the hand operated “toka
machine”, the fun times enjoyed by the young boys bathing at the water
pump and riding the bullock carts and the scenes of the vendors and the milkman
going about their trades.
The first picture in the calendar is a
tribute to the sacred shrine of the “Darbar Sahib” and depicts and “kar
sewa” of cleaning the holy tank, in progress.
All the paintings featured in the 2010 Sikh Foundation Fine Art calendar are original oil paintings, in the “Mahal Collection” and are done by artist Sukhpreet Singh.